Engage Cymru is the leading membership organisation for gallery education in Wales and has over 70 members, including gallery and museum educators, teachers, local authority officers and artists.

Engage Cymru promotes gallery education through advocacy, regular area group meetings, networking and professional development training events, and through its research projects.

Wales Arts Health and Wellbeing network website launched

WAHWN, the Wales Arts Health & Well-being Network, is coordinated by Engage Cymru with funding from the Arts Council of Wales. It is a rapidly expanding network with almost 300 arts and health professional members. 90 members have participated in Creative & Credible arts and health evaluation training over the past year, aimed at supporting colleagues to deliver robust and credible evidence of their work.

Thank you for this training, its helped me massively to understand how to evaluate and underpins the importance of getting the language right with consideration to different audiences.

Creative & Credible delegate

The WAHWN website was launched this year as part of the Bangor University, ‘Building a Collaborative Artistic Research Community’ conference. Any Wales-based members delivering arts, health and well-being focused work can sign up for free, upload their profile, view and post opportunities, blogs and a wide range of resources in the Knowledge Bank section. Take a look at the website at wahwn.cymru

Engage Cymru is delighted to announce a further successful funding award from the Arts Council of Wales to deliver training and networking events over the coming year. More details to follow shortly.

Engage Cymru has also been successful in its application to the Arts Council of Wales to support a programme of work aimed at young people at risk of offending, offering opportunities to achieve an Arts Award, in partnership with Theatr Clwyd in 2019.

This work will build on and consolidate earlier Engage Cymru programmes with young people at Parc Prison Youth Offending Institute and Hillside Secure Unit and respond to recommendations in the Youth Justice Board’s ‘Charlie Taylor’ Review which advocates for meaningful activity as one way of preventing offending behaviour.